How do you like that power rack? Would love any feedback you might have on likes/dislikes. Really great price point, but having never owned one, I don't have a good sense of whether there might be some different features worth spending another couple hundred bucks the first time, rather than maybe wanting to trade up a few years down the road. A lot of the alternatives look like they're at least another $200 after you factor in the bench, so not trying to overspend unnecessarily.

I have it and its fine. Wasn't too hard to assemble. Titan T-2 accessories fit it and can be a good way to upgrade it a bit if you want. It's solid enough for someone who isn't squatting 3+ plates yet. Plate holders would help to add some mass to it so that it doesn't wobble quite as much when you rack the weight.

Cons: Mostly minor nitpicks. Pin positions could be a bit better for benching - it's safe enough, but I'd really be happier if I could set the safeties about 1" higher. It's short on the inside, and I need to OHP on the outside (I'm 5'9'"), but my shorter GF can OHP on the inside. Bench could be a bit sturdier, but it's not causing me problems yet. Wish it came with J-hooks.

I think if I had to do it again, I'd just go with Titan or Rogue. If you're not sure how much you're going to love having a home gym or are strapped for cash, this is a good pick.

Thanks. Yeah, I've lifted off and on in the past. Always said I'd get weights whenever I moved into a place with a garage. Old roommate just had a squat rack and bench, I wanted to go with a power rack for safety. Having never owned one, doing more agonizing than I probably need to on what to buy.

Just saying, no matter what, they will unlock the rewards, even we don't actually catch that many Pokémons. Why? First, we can't really know how many we will catch. It's all from them. They can say whatever they want. Second, the whole event is just a way for them to get us play again. They make more money. Third, again, money, after we "unlock" the rewards they will even make more money and get more players involved. Finally, there are already many complaints about the game now like EX invite, do you think they want to hear rant from us if we "fail" to unlock the rewards?

It's just a marking strategy in my opinion. Just chill. Enjoy and no pressure! :)

Good point. The 3 billion number seems like a great way for them to advertise the strength of their player base. Would be silly to set themselves up for failure and effectively admit their game is not as popular as they thought

This is a game of chicken UNC might win. Anything major will get litigated, sounds like a lot of legal opinion thinks UNC would stand a good shot at winning in a court of law. NCAA may not want to take the chance of having their reach explicitly limited through legal precedent

Does your go+ work at all? I have a regular Pixel, and couldn't get the Go+ to work at all with 7.1.2, even with all the steps suggested by customer support. Ended up returning it, so haven't tried with 8.0. Also been wondering if maybe the Go'tcha would work.

O yeah. I spent hours googling and trying all the reset steps i could find several times, along with what customer support suggested. Reinstalled the game, uninstalled potentially conflicting bluetooth apps, connect via bluetooth then through the game, hard resets... nothing worked. I could always 'see' the device as available from the game and via bluetooth, but was never once able to get the initial pairing to work. I didn't go so far as to do a factory reset on my phone, but that seemed pretty extreme. Anyway, been debating getting a go'tcha, but after my experience with the go+, i want to make sure it'll work! Thanks for your feedback.

Up to 50,000 workers is a crazy amount. Even with real aggressive space consideration at 200 SF of office space per employee, that's 10 million square feet of space. I doubt there's anywhere with that kind of space ready to go, but I also imagine they'd grow over time, so construction would be on the table. RTP might be a good choice, they've got some campuses ready to go, and should have plenty of land to work with. I'm sure it'll make a bid, though South Carolina has been a lot more competitive on tax breaks lately.

I guess the official load test has begun. Let me know if there are any issues.

To those concerned about security, I do not and cannot log in as your user in pokemon go, you have to do everything manually. I wont post on your facebook or your google+(lol) either. I ask for minimal info to confirm your identity and to allow you to log in with either one (so long as they have the same email).

I did not post on this sub regarding the release due to concerns regarding the rules. I try very hard to respect this sub as I could not have built the site without all the great research here.

Edit: All time high simultaneous users on the main site right now but you all have a ways to go to beat the articles site! Server is easily holding up so far.

Potential ideas for future enhancements - some sort of way to show breakpoints for attacks, and maybe suggestions on swapping out non-ideal movesets. Currently, I'm manually adding 'hypothetical' pokemon, would be neat to have some of that functionality built in.

Cooking and whatnot is also very much a part of culture - preservation of earth's cultural elements is probably considered very important by the Federation, and running a restaurant is probably a great way to preserve an important aspect of that tradition/culture - from the traditional farming to produce foods, to the chefs' experience, to the dining atmosphere, etc.

Hard for us to think about a post-scarcity economy, but I'm sure there's a department manage to 'unique' resources and ensure they are put to the maximally beneficial use. In this case the physical location the restaurant is located in, and (presumably) lands allocated to traditional farming (like Jean Luc's family winery), and the products of that farming are all cultural elements and thus have a place in society. Rather than currency, it seems people work to earn respect, and because they enjoy what they do. If they didn't...sounds like they could just not work if that's what they wanted, but I'd imagine there's so many interesting things they could do with their time, and they're afforded every opportunity to do so.

They should let you view the public queue. I'd be more inclined to go to a raid a few blocks away that others are participating in rather than show up to one and wait for 30 mins for no one to show up. If you live in a suburban or urban community, there's a good chance others are queuing from inside a nearby building for the raid and you won't actually meet them. If you don't waste your pass, you will never know.

This. Hell, with some kind of matchmaking, I'd buy raid passes if I saw there were a group of people nearby for 3 and 4 tier. Right now I'm usually looking to just burn my free one toward the end of each day on whatever low tier raid I can solo. More power to people traveling to raids, but that's a big investment without any idea others will be there

Raleigh Beer Garden at Crabtree mall is OK if you don't want to go far. Though if you're considering Player's Retreat, that's practically downtown, and there's tons places in that radius to recommend depending on what y'all are looking for.

Was a dumb idea in the first place... until you can solve the underlying inequities that go into the experiences and education making up those resumes, then of course gender blind resumes are going to favor whoever had the most privileged position.

So your argument is gender is a qualification? Is the assumption then that all achievement are due to identity? Nothing is earned or that what is earned is out paced by what is given by default/chosen identity?
edit: I apologize if I've misunderstood your position

I made no argument that gender should be a factor in hiring. I'm simply positing that we continue to live in a society with structural inequalities, and that a solution to bringing equality to the hiring process re:gender isn't going to really work on the back end (gender blind resumes) as the inputs to resumes aren't derived in an equal manner (equal access to education, work experience, etc.).

I think it's going to need to be more modest - something like 20 stardust for knocking out an enemy pokemon at a gym, which would apply for both the attacker and the defender. This would result in a full gym knockout awarding 360 star dust (6 defenders, 3 knockouts each), and would also incentive players to start leaving high-CP mons in gyms to potentially gain more star dust from their defender performance, and to feed those mons, instead of the goofy situation now were a lot of players leave a mediocre mon so it gets knocked out in a reasonable time frame so they can collect coins.

360 from a full clear isn't a lot, but coupled with additional star dust from defending, should hopefully encourage more motivated gym performance

This is what I experienced when a defender came back at 00:xx. I got some coins after being capped the day before. Can't say anything about the raid pass, but I suspect the same. Similar to 1st spin/catch of the day.

Thank, trying to better time defender placement - hoping to start picking off gyms in the evening and tossing low-level mons in, hoping one can hold out overnight then get booted the next day. The gameplay seems weird to encourage 'strategic losing' to maximize benefits - having a high CP gym locked up for several days has been unhelpful so far.

Thanks... this is actually good to know. Burned my free one last night to solo a level 1 Bayleef near my apartment just to use it, didn't want to miss out on the rewards, though I'm under the impression the level 1 raids (rightly) don't give as good of a chance at better stuff as the higher end ones.

Good to know - I will definitely make sure I'm using all my free raid passes. I've heard the level 2 encounters are also not terribly difficult, though I've been waiting for high IV mons before leveling up, so my 2k+ CP are gyrados/vaporeon/cloyster - should make magmar pretty easy, but not a great set for the others lv 2 raids.

Sort of fits the topic, but I've always been curious whether a race might view humans as addicts, and what type of interactions that might prompt. The show gets into holo-addiction with Lt. Barclay, but it seems that whether it's something more serious, or benign, humans have a strong tenancy toward some kind of addiction: gambling, synthehol, sex, thrill-seeking, caffeine, etc.

I, personally, wouldn't invest anything in any pokemon that didn't appraise at the highest tier, especially since re-rolls are on the horizon. My Dragonites are all at 91% and I caught none of them, all evolved. They are pretty good.

And right now, I wouldn't invest anything in anything until we figure out the gym rework completely. Unless you just want a Dragonite, in which case go right ahead and you do what you need to do.

I agree with waiting, will be curious to see if there's any shuffling at the top for gym pokemon following the changes. Sounds like they were intended to promote more diversity, which is a welcome change, hopefully there will be a few more valuable pokemon

After playing the gyms for a while this afternoon, I don't think any of it matters anymore. I used only two attackers the whole afternoon and didn't have to revive either of them once. Battles are short, and defenders are all just sitting ducks. They drop fast. It was a nice idea but if I can take down any gym with a Dragonite and a Jolteon and can go multiple rounds without even healing them the gyms are broken. It felt good at first, but I quickly lost interest. The challenge was gone and I took 11 gyms in 2 hours. That shouldn't be possible.

*I have received one defender back, and received zero coins in the process. What is this nonsense?

It's goofy. I guess like the idea of gyms trading hands more frequently... I'm only level 27, so I haven't been able to compete in gyms much in my area as they mostly stay locked up with your typical squatters... but at the same time there should be a noticeable difference between a 90%+/3kCP+ mon and generic 1k+ CP wild catches. Hopefully there are some balancing tweaks incoming soon